Agenda and minutes

Venue: Hendon Town Hall, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BG

Contact: Maria Lugangira 020 8359 2761 Email: maria.lugangira@barnet.gov.uk 

Note: Public Questions and Comments must be submitted by 10am on the third working day before the meeting. The deadline for this meeting is 10am on Friday 1 September 2017. 

Items
No. Item

1.

Minutes of last meeting pdf icon PDF 59 KB

Minutes:

Councillor David Longstaff, Chairman of the Community Leadership Committee welcomed all attendants to the meeting.

 

RESOLVED-that the minutes of the previous meeting held on 21 June 2017 be agreed as the correct record.

 

 

2.

Absence of Members (If any)

Minutes:

Apologies were received by Councillor Graham Old, Councillor Maureen Braun was substituting.

 

3.

Declaration of Members' Disclosable Pecuniary interests and Non Pecuniary interests (If any)

Minutes:

None.

4.

Report of the Monitoring Officer (If any)

Minutes:

None.

5.

Public Comments and Questions (If any)

Minutes:

None.

6.

Members' Items (If any)

Minutes:

None.

7.

Registrar's Service Fees pdf icon PDF 265 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Head of Customer Strategy and Programmes introduced the report which provided the Committee with details of the proposed revised discretionary Registrar’s Service fees for marriage, civil partnership and naming ceremonies, renewal of vows, nationality and settlement checking, passport checking and European passport checking, private citizenship ceremonies and certificates for birth, death, marriage or civil partnership.

 

Following consideration and discussion of the item the Committee agreed the recommendations. 

 

RESOLVED - That the Committee approved the revised fees and charges as detailed in Appendix.

8.

Communities Together Network Annual Report 2016/17 pdf icon PDF 262 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Strategy Officer introduced the report which provided the Committee with details of Barnet’s Communities Together Network (CTN) annual report and outlined the refreshed CTN Aims and Terms of Reference (which, following consultation and feedback from CTN steering group and network members, were endorsed at the CTN meeting on 22nd March 2016) to reflect its broadened role.

 

Following consideration and discussion of the item the Committee agreed the recommendations. 

 

RESOLVED - That the Committee noted The Communities Together Network Annual Report 2016/17 and approved its publication on the Council’s website.

 

9.

Corporate Grants Programme, 2017/18 - grant applications pdf icon PDF 258 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chairman provided a brief introduction of the report which related to the assessments of 4 grant applications by four not-for-profit organisations.   

 

Following consideration and discussion of the item the Committee agreed the recommendations. 

 

RESOLVED – That, subject to the council’s Standard Conditions of Grant and the special conditions shown in the respective grant assessments enclosed:

(i)    a one-year start-up grant of £6,500 be awarded to Community Focus;

(ii)  a one-year start-up grant of £9,500 be awarded to Home-Start Barnet;

(iii)a one-year start-up grant of £9,250 be awarded to Inclusion Barnet;

(iv)a start-up grant of £9,542 be awarded to The Last Cuppa CIC

10.

Update on the annual strategic crime needs Assessment pdf icon PDF 365 KB

Minutes:

The Community Safety Manager introduced the report which provided the Committee with an update on the initial findings of the annual Community Safety Strategic Assessment. 

Following consideration and discussion of the item the Committee agreed the recommendations. 

 

RESOLVED –

 

1.    That the Community Leadership Committee (CLC) noted the findings of the Community Safety Strategic Crime Needs Assessment.

2.    That the Community Leadership Committee noted the progress made by the Safer Communities Partnership on delivering the 2016/17 objectives of the Community Safety Strategy.

 

 

 

11.

Committee Forward Work Programme pdf icon PDF 163 KB

Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the work programme.

 

RESOLVED - The committee noted the work programme.

 

12.

London Borough of Barnet - Prevent Forward Strategy 2017-2020 pdf icon PDF 280 KB

Minutes:

The Strategic Lead for Safer Communities provided the Committee with a presentation on Barnet Council’s internal Prevent Forward Strategy 2017-2020 which gave overview of the strategy and what it sets out;

·           The requirements of the Council to meet the statutory duty to prevent radicalisation of vulnerable adults and children and respond to the governments Prevent strategy.

 

·           The progress made and action taken since the introduction of the statutory duty.

 

·           Proposed actions to be delivered between July 2017 and July 2018.

 

·           Governance arrangements to ensure strategic oversight and compliance with the duty

 

She further explained the over-riding objective of the Prevent Forward Strategy is to keep the people of Barnet safe by accurately identifying people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism and/or violent extremism and to safeguarding children and adults by providing early intervention to protect and divert people away from being drawn into terrorist activity. 

 

The Chairman invited discussion on the item and reminded the Committee that any specific details or questions on the Appendix A – Prevent Forward Strategy 2017-20, should be reserved for when the Committee goes into private session.

 

Following consideration and discussion of the item the Committee agreed the recommendations.

 

RESOLVED - That the Community Leadership Committee endorsed the objectives set out in the London Borough of Barnet Prevent Forward Strategy 2017-2020.

 

 

13.

Any item(s) the Chairman decides are urgent

Minutes:

None.

14.

Motion to Exclude the Press and Public

Minutes:

The Committee:

 

RESOLVED – that under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act (as amended).

15.

Appendix A (exempt) - Prevent Forward Strategy 2017-2020

Minutes:

The Strategic Lead for Safer Communities introduced the exempt Appendix A

 

Following discussion of the item the Committee;

 

RESOLVED - that the information contained in the exempt report be noted.

16.

Any other item(s) the Chairman decides are urgent

Minutes:

None.